The USA thinks it can just pull wool over people's eyes over ByteDance ownership. What the USA wants is the technology of Tik Tok that is eating the breakfast, lunch and dinner of USA's domestic apps like Meta, Twitter and Youtube, which does not provide a platform for truthful news and vloggers are censored talking about the genocide in Gaza.
If Tik Tok goes under the control of the USA, being sold to a USA company, it will have to follow the censorship regime like Meta, Twitter and Youtube. It will basically be a lame duck app. That is why, whether Tik Tok gets banned eventually or sold to a USA company, most Tik Tok refugees are saying they want to remain on Rednote.
What the USA will do is also to ban Rednote down the road using the same narrative that it is a National Security Issue, being a truly China-centric app, more so than Tik Tok. What does that tell us about a country that touted itself to have freedom in this and that but does not walk the talk. Chinese citizens describe such freedom as without choice.
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